ETHIOPIA: OAU DELEGATES ATTEND BANQUET HONOURING EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE

Record ID: 565961

  • Title: ETHIOPIA: OAU DELEGATES ATTEND BANQUET HONOURING EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE
  • Date: 3rd November 1966
  • Summary: AFRICA HALL, WHERE DELEGATES HAD BEEN HOLDING PRE-CONFERENCE MEETING; GUESTS ARRIVING FOR BANQUET; GUESTS AT TABLE. Initials GM/V/MGT/K Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th November 1966 12:00
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  • Location: ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
  • Country: Ethiopia
  • Reuters ID: LVAF4W3UIEGFKXFX2C7EQCLWRY8B
  • Story Text: AN ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY SUMMIT CONFERENCE OPENS IN ADDIS ABABA ON SATURDAY. DELEGATES HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED IN THE ETHIOPIA CAPITAL, AND ON TUESDAY SOME OF THEM ATTENDED A BANQUET GIVEN BY THE ETHIOPIAN PRIME MINISTER, AKLILU HABTE WOLD, TO MARK THE 36TH ANNIVERSARY OF EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE'S ACCESSION TO THE THRONE.

    THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE BANQUET INCLUDED THE CROWN PRINCE, PRINCE ASFA WOSSEN. THE MEETING EARLIER IN THE DAY WAS OF THE OAU POLITICAL COMMITTEE, WHICH SPENT NEARLY FIVE HOURS DISCUSSING THE RHODESIAN QUESTION. DELEGATES PUT FORWARD SUGGESTIONS RANGING FROM MORE AID TO ZAMBIA TO THE RECOGNITION OF AN AFRICAN NATIONALIST RHODESIAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE.
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